Film

Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story

Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story – A ground-breaking documentary on 1930s America and the Federal Writers’ Project, which documented in riveting detail life during the Great Depression and helped launch talents such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, John Cheever, Richard Wright, Studs Terkel, Margaret Walker, Nelson Algren, and Jim Thompson. For more on this topic, read the Village Voice article about Ellison’s Harlem before Invisible Man, the Smithsonian article on the WPA Guides, and about the friendship between Wright and Algren in The American Scholar.Read More

Worlds of Sound: The Ballad of Folkways

Worlds of Sound: The Ballad of Folkways, the story of the little pirate record label with the global reach, premiered on the Smithsonian ChannelHD and won a 2010 CINE Golden Eagle award. Watch the trailer and get the film on iTunes or Amazon.

Partners of the Heart

Partners of the Heart, PBS’s American Experience – A documentary by director Andrea Kalin on breaking taboos in medicine and society.

Other Documentaries

“Reflections on Being Blue,” “Vivien’s Baltimore,” and “Breaking Down the Walls of Medicine” – Special features on the DVD Partners of the Heart. “Reflections on Being Blue” received a CINE Golden Eagle award.